SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A woman at the center of a high-profile gender bias lawsuit against an elite Silicon Valley venture capital firm filed an appeal on Monday of a jury verdict against her.
Confirming the worst fears of users, Reddit CEO Ellen Pao has told NPR that she does not want the site to be a “completely free-speech platform”. Her comments followed last week’s introduction of new ‘anti-harassment’ policies on the link-sharing site that
Online microblogging site Reddit’s new interim CEO Ellen Pao, is seeking a massive $16 million in reparations stemming from a 2012 gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employee, venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfied & Byers.
T-shirts featuring Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s suicide note reproduced in full have been pulled from both eBay and Etsy after numerous fan complaints.
GamerGate is the biggest internet storm in a decade–a battle that has spawned an unprecedented four-and-a-half million tweets, death threats, a front-page story in the New York Times, a segment on The Colbert Report, cost Gawker Media over a million
Sony Pictures Entertainment is looking into whether North Korea may have been behind a major cyberattack on the studio last week, a news website reported. The website re/code noted that the attack came as the studio neared release of a
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A new shuffle in leadership at online microblogging site Reddit has ushered in interim CEO Ellen Pao, who has become the company’s new face just three months before her high-profile sex discrimination case is set to appear before a San
In all of the distracting, hysterical, evidence-free and unfair allegations of misogyny and bigotry hurled at supporters of GamerGate, the consumer revolt that continues to surface outrageous misconduct in the video games press, something is being forgotten. GamerGate is remarkable—and
In an effort to recapture some of the internet magic for President Obama,R. David Edelman, the Senior Advisor for Technology and Economic Policy at the White House tried to promote Obama’s net neutrality statement with a Reddit AMA (Ask Me
Nicki Minaj assumes the role as dictator in her latest music video entitled “Only” which critics argue blatantly glorifies Hitler because of its prominent use of Nazi imagery. In the video, Minaj perches on a throne before an army of
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has made great progress in the area of criminal justice reform, but there is still a long way to go. That was the consensus message from a panel discussion earlier last month at the University of
“Fencing” is the buying or selling of stolen goods. As with most imaginable topics and persuasions, there are fencing communities on reddit, the popular internet message board. But what’s remarkable about the fencers on this particular site is how brazen
More nude celebrity photos, purportedly including reality star Kim Kardashian, circulated social media Saturday, in what appeared to be the second massive hacking-related leak in less than a month, US media reported. The pictures, which also included nude shots of
Monica Lewinsky, the woman who rose to fame after her “inappropriate relationship” with then-President Bill Clinton was exposed to the public, said that the celebrity photo hacker has crossed the line. “…certainly we can agree that stolen private nudes of actresses
LOS ANGELES, California — A visibly irked woman posted a sign in Los Angeles this week warning dog owners that she would personally follow them home and defecate on their doorsteps and the windshields of their cars if they failed
During his public relations tour before his inaugural Meet The Press on Sunday, new host Chuck Todd admitted that the mainstream press and the Washington establishment have lost touch with regular Americans and vowed that his show would do its part
It’s easy to mock video gamers as dorky loners in yellowing underpants. Indeed, in previous columns, I’ve done it myself. Occasionally at length. But, the more you learn about the latest scandal in the games industry, the more you start
Shelf Life clothing has a T-shirt that mocks the Chief Wahoo logo of the Cleveland Indians. Instead of Chief Wahoo, with the word “Indians” emblazoned above him, Shelf Life’s creation has a blond-haired white guy in his place, a dollar
Chinese officials have deemed it appropriate to punish drivers who are misusing their headlights by forcing them to stare at high beams for five minutes straight. The offenders must sit on a small plastic stool in direct alignment with the
“Let me make some peace with my mouth,” writes reddit user amreeki on a forum called ‘Random Acts of Blowjob’, an area of the social network in which women can advertise their sexual availability. The 29-year-old Israeli Defense Forces veteran, who lives
Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), infamous for their “God Hates Fags” slogans and picketing at soldiers’ funerals, is taking their God Hates the Media tour to the heart of the LGBT movement in America: San Francisco. WBC will reportedly be making
Luis Suarez, meet Mike Tyson. The retired 50-6 boxer commented Tuesday on the Uruguayan striker suspended from the World Cup, and all soccer-related activity for the next four months, for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini in front of an audience of
Justin Ross Harris, father of 22-month-old Cooper Harris, is on trial for the murder of his son, who was left for seven hours in Harris’s Hyundai Tucson. Over the objections of defense attorneys, the prosecution showed evidence that while Cooper
A parking sign posted for at least three years in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles that cautioned drivers they could park for one minute only was finally replaced on Friday after Drudge Report highlighted it on its website. According
